MIME Type Review Request: text/CSTA-type

[Hollenbeck, Scott]

Please review the MIME type registration template described below.  The IESG
has received a request to register this MIME type in the standards tree.  It
is a product of Ecma International.  A URL for the formal specification is
included in the template.

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MIME media type name: text

MIME subtype name: CSTA-type

Required parameters: (none)

Optional parameters: (none)

Encoding considerations:
This content type uses XML, employing UTF-8 character encoding.

Security considerations:
This content type is designed to carry CSTA data types over network
protocols. Appropriate precautions should be taken to insure that
applications observing these CSTA objects are authorized to do so.

Interoperability considerations:
text/CSTA-type documents are specified by the XML schemas standardized in
ECMA-323.

Published specification:
The published Standard ECMA-323 is available at:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-323.htm

Applications which use this media type:
The text/CSTA-type MIME type is used to carry CSTA data types specified in
CSTA XML (ECMA-323) over various types of network protocols.

Additional information:
CSTA XML (ECMA-323) is an application level protocol that enables an
application to control and observe communications involving various types of
media (voice calls, video calls, instant messages, Email, SMS, Page, etc.)
and devices associated with the media.

Person & email address to contact for further information:
Ecma Secretariat
Rue du Rhone114
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland
secretariat at ecma-international.org

Intended usage: common

Author/change controller:
The ECMA-323 Standard is developed and maintained by the Ecma TC32/TG11
Working Group.